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  MD

  Salisbury

  Pemberton Hall

  Pemberton Drive

  PO Box 573

  Salisbury  MD    21803    

  Phone 410 860-0447

  Web Site http://skipjack.net/le_shore/whs

  Description  located in park with Heritage Center museum, school & Election House

  Type of Resource  House Museum

  Primary Focus  Building Collection

  Building Type  Civic

  Era  1741

  Owner/Operator:  Wicomico Historical Society

  New or Updated:  8/3/2006

  Salisbury
  Poplar Hill Mansion
  117 Elizabeth Street
  Salisbury  MD  21801    
  Phone  410 749-1776
  Web Site  *****
  Alt Web  http://www.dmv.com/beachtobay/Salisburyattractions.cfm
  Description
  Type of Resource  House Museum
  Era      1805
  New or Updated:  07/12/2003
 

  Maryland

  Shady Side

  Capt Salem Avery House Museum

  1418 East West Shady Side Road

  PO Box 89

  Shady Side  MD   20764    

  Phone   410 867-4486

  Web Site  http://www.averyhouse.org/

  E-mail   mailto:captainavery@prodigy.net

  Description  Chesapeake watermen, 1860-1890, including small boat collection

  Type of Resource   House Museum

  Primary Focus  Local History

  Research   Library

  Era  1860

  Owner/Operator:  Shady Side Rural Heritage Society Inc

  New or Updated:   2/19/2006

   Upper Marlboro
  Billingsley House Museum
  6900 Green Landing Road
  Upper Marlboro     MD
  Phone    301 627-0730
  Web Site  http://www.goprincegeorgescounty.com/subsites/visitors/att_hist.htm-                    carousel
  Description      1740 brick plantation house, adjacent farm museum with antique farm                        equipment, all on 430 acres
  Type of Resource       House Museum
  Primary Focus    Agricultural
  Building Type    Plantation
  Industry /Profession     Farming
  Collection G-M      Machinery
  New or Updated:            11/23/2003

  Maryland

  Upper Marlboro

  Darnall's Chance

  14800 Governor Ogden Bowie Drive

  Upper Marlboro  MD   20772    

  Phone 301 952-8010

  Web Site http://www.pgparks.com/places/eleganthistoric/darnalls_intro.html

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  Description  emphasis on mid-18th century women, home of widow during pre-

                    Revolutionary era

  Type of Resource  House Museum

  Field of Study/Science Facility  Archaeology

  Collection A-F   Furniture

  Group Identity  African American

  Era  1704

  Owner/Operator:  Prince George's County

  New or Updated:  5/1/2007

  Waldorf
  Dr Samuel A Mudd Home
  3725 Doctor Samuel Mudd Road
  Waldorf          MD               20601  
  Phone    301 645-6870
  Alt Phone          301 274-9358
  Web Site      http://www.somd.lib.md.us/MUSEUMS/Mudd.htm
  Alt Web       http://www.ccboe.com/staffdev/newstaff/commun/commun.html
  Description      home of doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth's leg after Lincoln
  Type of Resource       House Museum
  Owner/Operator:     Dr Samuel A Mudd Society Inc
  New or Updated:                   12/1/2003

  Maryland
  Westminster
  Union Mills Homestead & Grist Mill
  3311 Littlestown Pike
  Westminster              MD               21158    
  Phone         410 848-2288
  Web Site      http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/ECODEPT/kleind/unionmills/index.html
  Alt Web       http://tourism.carr.org/unionmil.htm
  Description   mill & homestead
  Type of Resource      House Museum
  Primary Focus    Industrial
  Building Type    Mill
  Era      1797
  Owner/Operator:     Union Mills Homestead Foundation
  New or Updated:  12/2/2003